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Personal Hygiene Awareness among Visually Impaired El-Nour School Female Students

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Background: Females with visual impairment require continuous support in their personal hygiene practices. They are particularly at risk due to the challenges on access to health information. Aim: To assess personal hygiene awareness among visually impaired El-Nour school female students. Design: A cross sectional descriptive design. Setting: This study was conducted in El-Nour school at Sohag Governorate. Sample: A cluster random sample of 55 visually impaired adolescent students. Tools: Three tools were used to collect data.  Tool one included two parts; part one: personal characteristics and part two: visually impaired female students' knowledge about personal hygiene. Tool two: Included two parts; part one: The personal hygiene behavior scale and Part two: The Genital Hygiene Behaviors scale. Tool three: Reported practices about hand washing, teeth brushing and perineal care. Results: It was found that 52.7% of the studied students had unsatisfactory knowledge of personal hygiene, 78.2% & 63.6% had negative personal and genital hygiene behavior respectively and 67.3% had unsatisfactory reported practices about hand washing, teeth brushing and perineal care. Also, there were statistically significant differences between visually impaired female students' level of knowledge about personal hygiene and their father's education, mother's education, father's occupation and mother's occupation (P-value = 0.000, 0.001, 0.013 and 0.001) respectively. Conclusion: the studied findings revealed that visually impaired female student had unsatisfactory knowledge about personal hygiene and they had negative personal and genital hygiene behavior. Recommendation: Educational program about personal hygiene habits should be provided for visually impaired female students in the early age.      

DOI

10.21608/sjns.2023.229815.1022

Keywords

Awareness, Personal Hygiene, visually impaired female students

Authors

First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Mahazam

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

community and family health nursing, faculty of nursing sohag university

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a.asmaa55543@gmail.com

City

Sohag

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First Name

Neama

Last Name

El Magrabi

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

community health nursing, faculty of nursing Assiut university

Email

kabasylow@yahoo.com

City

Assiut

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First Name

Ragaa

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Abdallah

Affiliation

community and family health nursing, faculty of nursing sohag university

Email

ragaahassan85@gmail.com

City

Assiut

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3

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4

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44597

Issue Date

2024-01-01

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2023-08-16

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2024-01-01

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1

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13

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2974-3206

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2974-3214

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Sohag Journal of Nursing Science

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Personal Hygiene Awareness among Visually Impaired El-Nour School Female Students

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29 Dec 2024